SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-11-30 Thread HaggeL
Hi Guys :) Sorry if i waste your time. I´m a freeBSD noob and need some help. I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the Silicon ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller onboard (Asus A7N8X Motherboard). I didn´t find a

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-11-30 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: Hi Guys :) Sorry if i waste your time. Im a freeBSD noob and need some help. I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one, because i got the Silicon ImageR Sil 3112A-Controller

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-11-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: Hi Guys :) Sorry if i waste your time. I®m a freeBSD noob and need some help. I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA one,

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-11-30 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 14:40, Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: Hi Guys :) Sorry if i waste your time. I®m a freeBSD noob and need some help. I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-11-30 Thread Scott Long
Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:43, HaggeL wrote: Hi Guys :) Sorry if i waste your time. I®m a freeBSD noob and need some help. I want to install freeBSD in januar and have some problems. I want to buy me a new harddrive, a serial ATA

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-11-30 Thread Derek Ragona
I tried the 11/29 snapshot, it is indeed worse. I got a failure during the install's fsck. The errors I got were: ad4: Warning - WRITE_DMA recovered from missing interrupt ad4: Failure - WRITE_DMA status=ffI couldn't copy the codes here, sorry followed by lots of: ad4: timeout sending

SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-10-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip. Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the WD Raptor fx is not a real SATA device but just a PATA device with a build in PATA-SATA converter chip) it works just

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-10-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Søren, The SATA seems better, but is still not working. I tried the Oct 5 snapshot, doing a clean install. I CVSup'd and did make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC reboot to single user mount -a swapon -a mergemaster -p make installworld System

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-10-06 Thread Derek Ragona
Søren, The SATA seems better, but is still not working. I tried the Oct 5 snapshot, doing a clean install. I CVSup'd and did make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC reboot to single user mount -a swapon -a mergemaster -p make installworld System

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-10-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Derek Ragona wrote: The SATA seems better, but is still not working. I tried the Oct 5 snapshot, doing a clean install. I CVSup'd and did make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC reboot to single user mount -a swapon -a mergemaster

Re[2]: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-10-01 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi Soren Schmidt, you wrote. SS It seems Will Andrews wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:22:33PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: No what I mean is that the Raptor is a PATA device fitted with a marvell PATA-SATA converter on board, its not a pure SATA design, but just the old stuff they used to

Re: Re[2]: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-10-01 Thread David Leimbach
Gabriel, Interesting, since no one's made any PATA drives that spin at 10,000 RPM as far as I know. For some reason I thought the interface change allowed for this (but couldn't come up with a good reason why it would make a difference). :) SS Hmm, PR? pricing? I guess its easier to make people

SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip. Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the WD Raptor fx is not a real SATA device but just a PATA device with a build in PATA-SATA converter chip) it works just

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:40PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip. Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the WD Raptor fx is not a real SATA device but just a

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Will Andrews wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:40PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA problems some setups seems to be having with the SiI3112A SATA chip. Now, if I use real SATA drives, (and I mean real SATA drives, the WD Raptor fx is

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:22:33PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: No what I mean is that the Raptor is a PATA device fitted with a marvell PATA-SATA converter on board, its not a pure SATA design, but just the old stuff they used to make with the marvell chip kludged on the back :) The power

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Will Andrews wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:22:33PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: No what I mean is that the Raptor is a PATA device fitted with a marvell PATA-SATA converter on board, its not a pure SATA design, but just the old stuff they used to make with the marvell chip

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Derek Ragona
Great news to hear Søren. Do you know when a snapshot with the fix will be available? Since I cannot complete a buildworld using the SATA drive without the fix. Thanks for the fix. -Derek At 10:06 PM 9/30/2003 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: I have now found a way to reproduce the DMA

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread David Leimbach
On Sep 30, 2003, at 3:30 PM, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Will Andrews wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:22:33PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: No what I mean is that the Raptor is a PATA device fitted with a marvell PATA-SATA converter on board, its not a pure SATA design, but just the old stuff

Re: SiI3112 SATA controller problems - status

2003-09-30 Thread Will Andrews
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:15:58PM -0500, David Leimbach wrote: Yeah... I feel somewhat betrayed. Time to switch to a different drive brand :) I should have bought a Maxtor 10K III U160 SCSI drive instead. :) Getting an appropriate controller would have been more expensive, but the drive's